initial modern india mcq set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Cornwallis was the first Governor General who established a regular force on the British pattern in India.

Answer: (b)

Lord Dalhousie had drafted the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act.

It was mainly due to the efforts of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820 – 91), the principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta that the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, which legalized marriage of widows and declared issues from such marriages as legitimate, was passed by the government.

Answer: (b)

The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy purportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie. According to Hindu law, an individual or a ruler without natural heirs could adopt a person who would then have all the personal and political rights of a son.

Dalhousie asserted the paramount power’s right of approving such adoptions and of acting at discretion in their absence in the case of dependent states.

Annexation in the absence of a natural or adopted heir was enforced in the cases of

1. Satara (1848),
2. Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849),
3. Baghat (1850),
4. Chota Udaipur (1852),
5. Jhansi (1853), and
6. Nagpur (1854)

Answer: (c)

‘Tuhafat-ul-Muwahidin’, a tract written by Ram Mohan Roy, is the first tract against idolatry. He believed that prayers, meditation, and reading of the Upanishads were to be forms of worship and no graven image.

Statue or sculpture, carving, painting, picture, portrait, etc. were to be allowed in the society building thus proclaiming opposition to idolatry and meaningless rituals.

Answer: (c)

The tomb of Lord Cornwallis is located at Ghazipur, a small town in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh approximately seventy kilometers east of Varanasi. It is well connected by road and railways with different parts of the country.

Lord Cornwallis is known as a great administrator and a successful commander-in-chief in the history of India during the British period.

Answer: (a)